CTI (short for Creed Taylor Inc.) is a US record label owned and overseen by jazz producer Creed Taylor. Label Code: LC 1969 / LC 01969. He began the CTI label in 1967 as an imprint of Herb Alpert's A&M Records. Three years later Taylor took CTI out from under the A&M umbrella and relaunched CTI as an independent label. From June, 1974 to May, 1976, CTI and its sublabels were exclusively distributed in the USA by Motown Record Corporation. via Discogs →